Are you suggesting that he can’t make money from non-targeted ads?
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The publications he works for would almost certainly die without targeted ads.
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I don’t think that’s true. Targeted ads are a relatively new phenomenon and Internet publishing was supported by regular ads prior to that innovation & would likely merely return to that model.
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Not small publications like those. Non targeted ads make about 1/10 to 1/20 the money as targeted ads. Small publications would die overnight.
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Not if targeted ads are banned. You’d see the price of non-targeted ads skyrocket overnight. The ad market wouldn’t shrink— it’d shift.
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What drives the price of ads is how much advertisers can make, which would be a tiny fraction in a non targeted world
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Yet we know what that world looks like because it is the one we used to inhabit ~10 years ago. Many huge profits were made across all sectors.
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Advertising as a whole was smaller back then, though. The market caps of Google and Facebook are huge, and they mostly came from growing the whole advertising industry.
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Who doesn't dream of ads for things you don't want and don't apply? Meat ads for vegans. Christian Rock for atheists. Logical reasoning for Congress.
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this is hilarious.
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Capitalism has no sense of irony; it'll happily sell the tools of its own dismantling to meet short term goals
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